Examples of copal

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Each household had an incensario used for burning copal incense.
Extractors often mixed fossil copal with inferior copal resins, and sometimes with other adulterants like sand and gravel in attempts to inflate the price.
The transition from zompantle wood to copal wood, and from water-based aniline paints to house paints, was accompanied by rising production levels.
Whereas the average total revenue per year from copal exports for the 1890s was $85,664, the figure for rubber was $279,188.
Apart from their role as sources of copal, control of coastal forests offered other advantages to hinterland societies.
Generally, copal found at the greatest depths was the most fossilized, thus the most labor-intensive and valuable.
Having identified the glyph for copal as something other than a spiral, he reasoned that the spiral must represent another type of burnt offering.
This region's copal was the best in the world for making high-value carriage varnish.
This quotation confirms that the burning of copal is a traditional par t of the ritual of the green-corn harvest.
Once extracted from the ground, fossil copal underwent a contracting process that gave it a 'goose flesh ' surface.
Three of those were copal, and the others were charcoal.
Locating copal extraction in a specific time and place demonstrates why this commodity and its environment contributed to the evolution of patronage and authority.
For instance, rubber may be difficult to distinguish from copal because both are round and were burned in much the same fashion.
This gave those who controlled the coastal forests a decided advantage until the demand for rubber outpaced that for copal from about 1880.
Although some of the protocols establishing forest reserves provided local headmen with concessions to collect rubber, no such concessions were granted for copal.
Shook's (1954b) report generally confirms this, and the east room could have accumulated debris, particularly resinous copal, over a long period.
These qualities gave those who controlled the coastal forests a decided trade advantage for most of the nineteenth century, when the demand for copal reached its peak on world markets.
New colonial tax, labor and conservationist policies spelled the decline of the copal economy and its communities as they lost access to the coastal forests.
Colonial scientific forestry was the major challenge to confront the copal economy by the turn of the century.

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